From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Lua & MP
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:02:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1009302300500.27075@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA440CD.7080403@wxs.nl>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 30-9-2010 8:19, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is it possible that Lua gets value of a MetaPost variable?
>>
>> Let's have MetaPost code:
>>
>> z11=(0,0)
>> z12=(1,1)
>> z21=(0,1)
>> z22=(1,0)
>>
>> aa[z11,z12]=bb[21,z22]
>>
>> So now aa = bb = 0.5.
>>
>> And I'd need to access MetaPost values 'aa' and 'bb' from Lua (e.g. in
>> Lua: "local a = mpost.aa, b = mpost.bb").
>>
>> Is it possible somehow?
>
> no
I don't know how MPlib handles metapost terminal output, but if you can
capture the terminal output in lua, then you can use
show aa, bb;
in metapost and parse the output in lua.
Aditya
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2010-09-30 6:19 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2010-09-30 7:48 ` Hans Hagen
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